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Schroedinger's cat will always land on its feet.
But not if it doesn't exist. And that probably depends on whether prescriptivism is a standing wave or just a mass of particles jammed up against the quantum grill of understanding ...
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Schroedinger's cat will always land on its feet ... But not if it doesn't exist.
Well, yes and no, Capfka.
"What is not" could be embedded in Bohm's "implicate" order, in which case the cat is always on its feet and only "lands" when we actually see it.
Someone who understands Bohm [far more than I ever will] explains:
"In Bohm's view, all the separate objects, entities, structures, and events in the visible or explicate world around us are relatively autonomous, stable, and temporary "subtotalities" derived from a deeper, implicate order of unbroken wholeness."
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all the separate objects, entities, structures, and events in the visible or explicate world
That's OK, wordmistral. You just sit down, close your eyes and take a few deep breaths and everything will be all right.
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Yeah, wot Faldo said. Me, I can't fix cars, never mind quantums.
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That's OK, wordmistral. You sure you didn't mean word mistrial, there, Faldo? [Freudian-slipping e] 
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mistral (noun) -
1. a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter
Source: WordNet ® 1.7, © 2001 Princeton University The mistral had an effect on Vincent Van Gogh and his paintings as evidenced by this: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p_0712.htm, among others. It is also said to cause headaches and a general feeling of malaise http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/depression.htmlWhy is this so? http://watershed.net/negions_n_health.htmSince this article is a long one, here are some of the pertinent paragraphs: Turning to the adverse effects associated with certain ion environments, there have been long traditions in the folklore of nearly every country that link certain changes in weather with changes in health and behaviour. One such tradition has to do with the winds of ill repute, for example, the Foehn (Southern Europe), Sirocco (Italy), Santa Ana (United States), Khasmin (Near East), and Mistral (France). Wherever they prevail, their victims attribute to them the ability to induce respiratory distress of various sorts, nervousness, headache and a multitude of other ills. So malign is their influence that when they blow, judges deal leniently with crimes of passion, surgeons postpone elective surgery and teachers expect more than the usual fractiousness from their students.
Since the turn of the century, several scientists and physicians have hypothesised that the immediate cause of such malaise is the upset in electrical balance of the atmosphere that precedes or accompanies the winds. This relationship between air ions and disease, tenuous at first, is finding support in the meteorological observations of investigators such as Robinson and Dirnfield who studied the Sharav, a weather complex afflicting the Near East and characterised by persistent wind, a rapid rise in temperature and a fall in relative humidity. Robinson and Dirnfield measured solar radiation, temperature and relative humidity, wind velocity and direction and the electrical state of the atmosphere before, during and after the Sharav. They found that 12 - 36 hours before the characteristic changes in wind, temperature and humidity, the total number of ions increased (from 1500 ions/cm3 to 2600 ions/cm3) and the ratio of positive to negative ions jumped from the normal 1.2 to 1.33. This early shift in ion density and ratio coincided with the onset of nervous and physical symptoms in weather sensitive people and was considered the only meteorological change that could be responsible for the discomfort associated with the Sharav [32].
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I read recently that the French were the first to have a go at building the Panama Canal (having gained considerable expetise with Suez). After many years, and over 20,000 deaths, they gave up and the project was eventually finished by the Americans. Of interest to me was that most of the 20,000 deaths were due to malaria, which the French believed came from the noxious air (hence, malaria). They were careful to wear masks but continued to drop like flies, as it were.
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That's OK, wordmistral
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mistral (noun) -
a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter
I think I have deconstructed your "wordmistral" coinage, dear Faldage.
Wordmistral -
a strong north wind that blows at Faldage during the winter.
Ah, but Spring has arrived, Faldage. And Wordminstrel blows nothing but gentle breezes your way.
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